Holocaust Denial and the Iranian Regime

In Tehran's worldview, if six million Jews didn't die, then Israel has no excuse to exist.

By

Reuel Marc Gerecht

April 25, 2014 7:02 p.m. ET

Well, we know that there's at least one person who won't be marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday. "Observe that no one in Europe dares to speak about the Holocaust even though it's not clear what the reality is about it, whether it even has a reality, or how it happened," said Iran's ruling cleric, Ali Khamenei, in a March 21 speech. "Expressing an opinion or doubts about the Holocaust is considered to be one of the greatest of sins [in Europe] where someone can get stopped, arrested, sued or imprisoned for...